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A few red drops : the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 / Claire Hartfield.

By: Publisher: Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]Description: 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544785137 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • Few red drops, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919
  • Chicago Race Riots of 1919
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.896/0730773110904 23
LOC classification:
  • F548.9.N3 H37 2018
Contents:
Catalyst -- The beach -- A time to reap -- First whispers -- Freedom fight -- Self reliance -- White Negroes -- Waste matters -- Parallel universes -- A stone's throw -- Up from the south -- A higher call -- The northern fever -- A real place for Negroes -- A job, any job -- Full to bursting -- Respectability and respect -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Tensions rising -- Last straws -- Race riot -- Ratcheting up -- Point counterpoint -- Moment of truth.
Awards:
  • Coretta Scott King author award, 2019
Summary: "Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-189) and index.

Catalyst -- The beach -- A time to reap -- First whispers -- Freedom fight -- Self reliance -- White Negroes -- Waste matters -- Parallel universes -- A stone's throw -- Up from the south -- A higher call -- The northern fever -- A real place for Negroes -- A job, any job -- Full to bursting -- Respectability and respect -- Reaping the whirlwind -- Tensions rising -- Last straws -- Race riot -- Ratcheting up -- Point counterpoint -- Moment of truth.

"Examines the events and forces leading up to 1919 race riots in Chicago."--Provided by publisher.

Ages 12 and up.

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.9 6 500342.

Coretta Scott King author award, 2019

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